US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on May 27 for "System and method for managing vehicle operations" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,913, issued on May 27, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"System and method for managing vehicle operations" was invented by Harry Kirk Mathews Jr. (Clifton Park, N.Y.), James D. Brooks (Grove City, Pa.), Ajith Kuttannair Kumar (Erie, Pa.), Gayathri Seenumani (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Sharath Sridhar Aramanekoppa (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system controller includes determining a power requirement for a vehicle system to complete a planned trip over a route. The method includes determining whether an amount of available power from the vehicle system is sufficient to propel...